by Russell Southwood (@BalancingActAfr) Evert van der Veer, Head of Comedy Central, Africa on:
- the extent of the comedy scene and its more famous performers;
- race and religion as two defining topics in South Africa;
- taboos comedy tackles;
- the kinds of venues comedy plays in;
- international comedians’ success in South Africa;
- the kind of local South African programmes on the Comedy Channel;
- and opening up local comedy programmes for Nigeria.
Russell Southwood is the founder of Balancing Act and the web TV channel Smart Monkey TV, and has been an analyst in telecoms, internet and broadcast in Africa for the last 14 years. Smart Monkey TV aims to capture the energy at the crossroads between African culture and technology. MarkLives is syndicating content from Smart Monkey TV on a weekly basis for the column “Smart Africa TV”.
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